kinezuka　杵束

KEY WORD :　architecture / folk dwellings

Also called toukyouzuka 東京束. A strut that bulges out at top and bottom. The term is derived from a long-handled pestle used for pounding, kine 杵. Such struts are used in the roof framework of some farmhouses, nouka 農家. Also the king posts *shinzuka 真束, in such houses often have the same shape.

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